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CENTRAL
HEATRE
TARE QUEEN'S ED., WESTHOUED BUS
Advance Booking at Andersons and the Theatre Tel 28720.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
at 280, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
EDMUND
LOWE
Shirley Grey, Onslow Stevens, Ralph Forbes, Hedda Hopper
in
The mile-a-minute mystery drama staged aboard a train specding across India!
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE presented by Carl Laemmle
BOMBAY MAIL
TO-MORROW
The pets whe Boar Returau Husbutt prasme disa pada".
MAN OF TWO WORLDS
Honey Atwehaasan ± ferrell Malavi
LEE THEATRE
TO-DAY TO MONDAY
At 12.30. 2.30, 5.20, 7.00 & 10.30 PM. BEBE DANIELS
IN
LOVE COMES ALONG"
IN HER GREATEST SONG| DRAMA TRIUMPH. ADDED ATTRACTION
ON THE STAGE.
AT 8.80 & 9.30 P.M..
A SPECIAL CHINESE PLAY STARRING
Miss WU DIP YING & CHO PIN
PRICES DRESS CIKOLE 55 ct STALLS:-80 ste 55 ots, & 40 ots. NOTAFor the benefit of our patrons who do not wish to see the Chinese Stage Play, it is pointed out that "Love Comes Along" starts at 7.00 & 10.30 p.my
TO-DAY AT THE
KING'S
CINEMA
HONG KONG
"The Bowery"
QUEEN S→→→
"The Working Man"
CENTRAL-
"Bombay Mail”
ORIENTAL
"Night Flight"
LEE
"Love Comes Along"
KOWLOON
ALHAMBRA—–
"Advice to the Lovelom"
'STAR-
"Penthouse"
MAJESTICmm
"The Conquerors"
Coming
"I Am Suzanie"
KING'S
QUEEN'S
STAR-
"Going Hollywood"
"The Crime of the Century"
"The Stranger's Return" "Hallelujah 'I'm A Tramp"
CENTRAL
"Man of Two Worlds"
ALHAMBRA—
"The Kennel Murder Cage" "His Double Life"
"Moulin Rouge"
“KENNEL
MURDER
CASE"
Coming To Alhambra
After the" first announcement was made that William Powell would bring the famous detective character of Philo Vance to life. by way of "The Kennel Murder Case, which will be shown at the Alhambra Theatre. Gn Sunday: Warner Bros. Studios received letters from all over the country. congratulating them upon their decision.
Hundreds of fans, male and female, stated. they were anxious to see one of the most famous. figures cf modern fiction on the screen again, in the person of Powell, who first made 5.8. Van Dine's fictitious debonair crime. expert a real; live character.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1934.
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY DAILY AT (2.30.5.10.7.15]
& 9.30 P.M.
•KINGS
NEW DEAL" PICTURE" OF AN
"OLD DEAL" DAY!
HER FIRST CARESS- A SOCK IN THE JAW
Bad Boy UNITED ARTISTS
THE BOWERY
At The King's
Then she sunk bar teeth in his hand. After that they understood each other. "For they did such things on the Bowery, the Bowery",
JOSEPH M. SCHENCK » DARRYL F. ŽANACK
·pinzhat
WALLACE BEERY GEORGE RAFT JACKIE COOPER FAY WRAY & PERT KELTON- THE
BOWERY
Directed by
RAOUL WALSH |
through the farm of Peter Stuy vesant, the last Dutch Colonial
Governor of Netherlands.
To-day is only lives in tradi- tion, but forty years ago it was the toughest quarter of all-New-| The "Bowery Boys" are back, York. The Bowery Boys, contem In the wickedest mile outside hell,poraries of the tough brotherhood Mrs. Carrie Nation has found her then heading for Alaska. lured hatchet again, and Buster. Brown by the rumours of gold strikes. in the newspapers, and Brooklyn hardest-balled bunch of thugs in is vizing with John L. Sullivan prided themselves on being the Bridge is being proclaimed the the "world. eighth wonder of the world.
BOOKING AT THE THEATRE TEL. 25313
25332
FROM TO-MORROW.
I Am Suzanne!
A Jassa 1. Läsky Production
with
LILIAN HARVEY
Gene Raymond
Leslie Banks
Podrecca's Piccoli Marionettes Directed by Rowland V. Lee
Story and Screen Play by Rowland V. Las 'and Edwin, Justus Mayer Dance Direction: Sammy Lee
Browal answere
in
2
"Buster
in the nineties. Jackie Cooper, in a miniature man's sult, sport-- ing a cigar and bowler hat, askėd by a kind old gentleman, "Who might you be, my little man?” -impudently,
Buster Brown, clad B velvet suit and" lace collar, was mama's darling, who figured in a famous comic cartoon in a leading American daily paper. His spoiled darling A vast amount of research was
look was belled by the pranks (hę necessary before work could be-
played on the bad boys of the neighbourhood. gin in Hollywood on The Bowery.
His velvet suit Old fles of the "Police Gazette."
was world-famous, and a type of thousands of yellow photographs drapery trade to-day as a "Buster collar is still known to the
In the Bowery, the Twentieth Century picture, with Wallace Beery, George Raft and Fay Wray, a street in New York's Chinatown. crammed with saloons, concert of the gardens, tramps lodging-houses, shooting galleries, whisky dives, automatic arcades. tattooing es- tablishments, Yiddish theatres, knock-em-down-and-drag-em-on: dance halls, lives again with all the noise and blows, booze and shandon it knew in the gay'
What is the Bowery, the street which gives the film its title? It lies a mile from Wall Street.. In the old Dutch days it was the "bouwerie," or lane between the farms. Originally it was the road
Likewise, Powell's fan mail nineties. swelled noticeably with congratu- latory messages from his fans. Seldom has an actor won, so large a following in a role of this nature, as Bill Powell did with his por trayal of Phil Vance in The Canary Murder Case," ""The Green Murder Case" and "The Benson Murder Caso?!
Eugene Pallette is aeen once more Jusi Sergeant Heath, Gene has played the role in every Van Dine picture to date. "The Kennel Murder Case" is his fourth appearance as the burly police sergeant with Powell,
The balance of the fine cast in- cludes Mary Astor, Robert Barat, Jack La Ruo, Helen Vinson, Arthur. Hohl, Ralph Morgan, Henry O'Neill, Paul Cavanaugh, Robert McWade and other well-known players.
"MAN OF TWO
WORLDS"
Coming To Central
Love making "technique" is just so much "hooey."
That's the opinion of Francis Lederer, who would qualify in any court as an expert,
During his career as a stage and screen, star, Lederer has made love to more than 200 benatiful women of eleven nations. Europe hails him na its most romantic hero and on the New York stage in "Autumn Crocus he was the most widely acclaimed heart flutterer of last season.
Still, Lederer, a strikingly sincero and earnest chap, who insists, that thers is no such thing as a "great lover" anys, poaitively he has no romantic technique. His only system, if it can be called that, is just to be natural
When I make love to a gril on stage or screen, I am not acting or employing technique," said he, “fam just a human being reacting to the attractions of a beautiful women.”
Of course, admitted the star, who was Elissa Landi in HKO-Radio Pictures' "Man of Two Worlds” he doesn't make love to every girl in the
same manner,"
Different women inspire different feelings," he explained, "And I reset accordingly. "One woman inspire tenderness, another masterful domin- ances, third wit and gaiety, and still another may arouse a desire to be cruel or even brutal. Again, it in just
·a matter of being natural, and to. chnique hasn't a thing to do with it
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
THE HAPPIEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR
nineties, and scores of books were scanned by the Re- search Department of the studio] for months before actual filming started.
In the course of all this work many curious comparisons came to light. The main titles of the film are screened to the song: The Bowery! The Bowery! They say such things and they" do such" things-On the Bowery, the Bowery! I'll never go there any more.
The Bowery has re-created even the smallest detalls of New York
QUELA'S
George
ABLISS
(Warner Bros Mti wish.
BETTE DAVIS
"THE WORKING MAN"
FINAL SHOWINGS, TO-DAY.
STAR
i
Brown."
On April 22, 1898, the United States declared war, and it is that "war tọ which Wallace Beery and George Raft march, a war which must surely have been one of the shortest on record, for it ended four months
the later, with United States the victors. After seeing the film one might be 'ex- cused for thinking that the speedy. victory was not unrelated to the enlistment of Chuck Connors and Steve Brodie, two of de toughest guys de Bowry ever noo.".
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
·NEXT CHANGE:
"BING
CROSBY"
in
"Going Hollywood”
Metro's Musical with MÁRION DAVIES
At 2.80, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
Arthur Somers Roche's
"PENTHOUSE"
with
WARNER BAXTER MYRNA LOY
FINAL SHOWINGS TJ-DAYALHAMBRA
THE STRE
Advice to the LOVELORN
A DARRYL F. ZANUCK
Production
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9,20
p.m.
NEXT CHANGE-
WILLIAM
Powell
Returns as PHILO VANCE in
"THE KENNEL
MURDER CASE"
MARY ASTOR JAMES TEE
"THE WORKING MAN"
Showing At The Queen's
George Arliss, beloved by theatre- "goers the world over, has found the perfect role in his latest picture. The Working Man," a Warner Bros., feature which has its final showings to-day at the Queen's."
It is a highly spiced comedy drama
of American business and youthful folly in which the star appear as 2 short-tempe. cc, soft-hearted champion. of "big business" who steals time. from his own affairs to straighten out, the lives of the orphaned children of his former strongest competitor,
As Reeves, grumpy bachelor head of a great manufacturing concern, who goes fishing for a vacation only to find that the expedition lewis him into the. most exciting business battle of his life against his own firm -- Arliss, to advance word frotu
displays All the qualities that have made him recognized as the foremost actor of the acreen to-day; It is a story filled with humour and amusing situations, replete with real drama, played by cast of all star calibre.
Bette Davin is featured in the prin cipal supporting role as the gay young reckless-living orphan. Miss Davis, a star in her own right in recent pic tures, who credits Mr. Arliss "in part for her "discovery," is said to have jumped at the chance to play har second role opposite Arliss, even though in a supporting part.
MAJESTIC
THEATRE Nathan Road, Kowloon Tel. 57229 TO-DAY ONLY At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20, & 9,20P.M.
MARCH ON AMERICAI
Out of the smoke of your chimneys Out of the sweat of your fields... Out of the faith of your people
comes"your saga
of courage...a liv- ing canvas splash-
ed with the blood
of the conquerors!
RICHARD DIX}} ANN HARDING
in a tidal drama deep as human passion
The CONQUERORS
With EDNA MAY OLIVER GUY KIBBEE
from the story by Howard Estbrook Directed by WILLIAM WELMAN David O. Selznick, executive producer.. An RKO-RADIO PICTURE
Hardie Albright, another excellent actor who has appeared in other Arliss pictures, hus his first sympathetic role in a long time, as the love interest op- posita Miss Davis. J. Farrell. Mao- Donald has a fine part as Arliss' fish-original story by Edgar Franklin the ing companion while Gordon Westcott screen play being by Charles Kenyon supplies the menace.
and Maude T. Howell.
'4 SHOWS
DAILY 1.30–519
7.15-8.00
"The Working Man" is based on an
TAKE ANY TRAN OR HAPPY VALLEY HOB
ORIENTAL
LAST 4 TIMES
TO-DAY MARVELLOUS PICTURE! WONDERFUL CAST OF STARS !
NIGHT FLIGHT
'JOHN
BARRYMORE HELEN HAYES CLARK GABLE
LION BL
BARRYMORE
ROBERT, MONTGOMERY MYRNA LOY
“ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN". Showing At Alhambra
All the trials and tribulations that go with editing an "agony" column on & big metropolitan daily fall to the lot of breezy Lee Tracy in his new pic- ture, "Advice to the Lovelorn." And we might add-"and then some.”—for it is no ordinary lovelorn column that the brisk blond star conducts in this newest offering of Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck's 20th Century Pictures, which has its final showings to day at the Alhambra,
As Toby Frentian, he dishes out some of the goofiest advice ever taken to heart by a lovelorn soul. But it's all part of Toby's plot to wiggle out of a five-year contract that holds him to the detested post to which he was demoted. as a penalty for getting drunk and missing the year's prize story by sleeping calmly through an event of no less cataclysmic propor- tions than a major earthquake.
SUMING
WOAD WANOHA
TEL. 28428
TO-MORROW AND MONDAY
JUST
ONE BIG LAUGH
FROM
START TO FINISH!
Give Your Family a Laugh
Without making funny faces Bring Tem in to ser·
Olsen's Big Moment
EL BRENDEL
"OLSEN'S BIG MOMENT”
At The Oriental On Sunday
El Brendel, premier Swedish comedian of the screen appearing Olsen's Big Moment" Fox Film's
latest comedy release, showing at the Oriental Theatre on Sunday, and Monday, Play- ing the role of a janitor of an apartment house who takes" a hand at patching up romances, Bl Brendel is said to be given ample opportunities to supply his audi- ence with laughs. Walter Catlett who has long been known for his comedy roles, plays the part of a drunk with two such stellar comedians in one picture, "Olsen's Big Moment" gives promise of be- ing a laugh riot.
Toby's plot misses fire, however, and his subsequent efforts to dodge his
As a janitor in a swank apart- trasting orrrespondents and their irate ment house, Brensel ands it hard mothers particularly one who em-to get away for his night out. - phasizes her indignation by wielding On another floor in the same horsewhip and at the same time house, a society matron is trying keep a weather eye open for a way to persuade her daughter to mar out of this loathsome job, make for
wealth of highly diverting situations, walter Catlett, a wealthy ba- which often border on the melodra chelor. The daughter refuses on matic and occasionally slip over into the ground that she loves some the realm of stark tragedy.
one else. Brendel is unfortunate Toby's troubles are aggravated by ly forced into patching up the the fact that his sweet-heart holds romance. In his endeavors to do very definite and most unflattering the right thing, he finds himself views concerning the Fourth Estate wound up in a series of complica- and refuses to marry him until he tions that eventually gets him in- accepts a job in her father's garage to trouble. Brendel however It is not until he gets himself involved with a vicious cut-rate drug manager to bring about a happy racketeer and inadvertently causes the
ending to the entire-anair, death of his own mother and the downfall of lovelorn girl that Toby managers to straighten out his mad and maddening existence.
Bally Blane brings her superlative charm and loveliness to the role of the sweetheart who lives to alter her views, of the newspaper profession, and as, Bennie, the office boy secretary whom Toby inherits with the "sgony; column. Sterling Holloway contributes to the joyful spirit of the occasion.
It is reported that Brendel, who has long been known for his Scandinavian antics, plays a role that is far more important. Phản any of his previous endeavors Walter Calter Catlett heada cast which includes Weeks, Susan Fleming, last se 28 two of the beauties in al
Weakness. John - Arledge - Joseph Sauers.
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